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Selected New Books on Higher Education

Compiled by Ruth Hammond
December 15, 2019
Selected New Books on Higher Education 1

Becoming a Psychology Professor: Your Guide to Landing the Right Academic Job, by Guy A. Boysen (American Psychological Association; 145 pages; $22.49 for APA members, 29.99 for nonmembers). Tips for the job hunter, including how to find the right fit, prepare for interview questions, and negotiate terms of a job offer.

Career Pathways in Action: Case Studies from the Field, edited by Robert B. Schwartz and Amy Loyd (Harvard Education Press; 271 pages; $66 hardcover, $34 paperback). Presents five case studies of efforts by the Pathways to Prosperity Network to align the goals of high schools, colleges, and workplaces; ensure postsecondary success for college-bound first-generation students; and create an early college for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Selected New Books on Higher Education 1

Becoming a Psychology Professor: Your Guide to Landing the Right Academic Job, by Guy A. Boysen (American Psychological Association; 145 pages; $22.49 for APA members, 29.99 for nonmembers). Tips for the job hunter, including how to find the right fit, prepare for interview questions, and negotiate terms of a job offer.

Career Pathways in Action: Case Studies from the Field, edited by Robert B. Schwartz and Amy Loyd (Harvard Education Press; 271 pages; $66 hardcover, $34 paperback). Presents five case studies of efforts by the Pathways to Prosperity Network to align the goals of high schools, colleges, and workplaces; ensure postsecondary success for college-bound first-generation students; and create an early college for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, by Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University Press; 374 pages; $49.95). Examines how the ideal of meritocracy, often perceived as a democratizing force, perpetuates inequality at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, with their primarily upper-caste graduates.

Convergent Teaching: Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College, by Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann (Johns Hopkins University Press; 234 pages; $29.95 hardcover or e-book). Borrowing a concept used in elementary and secondary education, shows professors how to improve undergraduate education by focusing on the knowledge to be taught in a course, bringing to the surface what students already know, and navigating between the known and unknown.

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Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialogue and Deliberation in Higher Education, edited by Nicholas V. Longo and Timothy J. Shaffer (Stylus Publishing, in association with the Association of American Colleges and Universities and Campus Compact; 336 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $27.99 e-book). Describes the many kinds of discussions that need to take place in college to prepare students for lives of civic engagement.

The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility, by Gary Roth (Pluto Press; 178 pages; $99 hardcover, $21 paperback or e-book). Describes the role higher education plays in keeping people in their relative socioeconomic place, through mechanisms like selectivity and underemployment.

Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers, by Daniel Goodman (MIT Press; 389 pages; $19.95). A collection of interviews with scientists and engineers, including 10 from academe, offering career and life guidance.

The Future of Education: Rediscovering Free Inquiry, edited by Oskar Gruenwald (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research; 220 pages; $20). Philosophies of education, intellectual censorship by liberals, and the need to restore the traditional liberal arts are among the subjects covered in this Volume XXXI, No. 1/2, issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Interfaith Dialogue.

Graduate Skills and Game-Based Learning: Using Video Games for Employability in Higher Education, by Matthew Barr (Palgrave Macmillan; 226 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $79.99 e-book). How to use commercial games like World of Warcraft to help college students develop an inquiring mind, breadth of vision, and other attributes that are valued in graduates.

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How University Budgets Work, by Dean O. Smith (Johns Hopkins University Press; 182 pages; $27.95 paperback or e-book). Explains in detail how budgets are prepared, monitored, and aligned with strategic plans.

Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary, by Isaac A. Kamola (Duke University Press; 282 pages; $104.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback, $25.60 e-book). Explores how relationships among universities, government, philanthropy, and finance led to higher education’s perception of the world as global, and discusses the financial incentives for universities’ global engagement.

The New American College Town: Designing Effective Campus and Community Partnerships, edited by James Martin and James E. Samels & Associates (Johns Hopkins University Press; 310 pages; $44.95 hardcover or e-book). Describes 20 valuable characteristics of present-day college towns and the promotion of effective town-gown relationships at institutions including Albion, Colby, and Connecticut Colleges; State University of New York’s Broome Community College; and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

The Positioning and Making of Female Professors: Pushing Career Advancement Open, edited by Rowena Murray and Denise Mifsud (Palgrave Macmillan; 241 pages; $139.99 hardcover, $109 e-book). Includes personal essays on how various women navigated a patriarchal system as a feminist, a “mother academic,” a former adjunct, and a junior professor in her 40s.

Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes From a White Professor, by Cyndi Kernahan (West Virginia University Press; 238 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $24.99 paperback or e-book). How to be forthcoming and compassionate in teaching students about racism without blaming, shaming, or being confrontational.

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Transformational Learning in Community Colleges: Charting a Course for Academic and Personal Success, by Chad D. Hoggan and Bill Browning (Harvard Education Press; 249 pages; $66 hardcover, $34 paperback). Recommends changes in institutional and classroom practices to help historically underserved students succeed in college and their careers.

University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus, by Curtis Marez (University of California Press; 249 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback or e-book). Examines the evolution of a university-cinema-industrial complex and its promotion of traditional ideas of respectability, white nationalism, and counterinsurgency.

Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy: Lessons from Four Countries, edited by Marc S. Tucker (Harvard Education Press; 240 pages; $66 hardcover, $34 paperback). Studies the different approaches that China, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States take in training young people for the modern workplace.

Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison, by Deborah Appleman (W.W. Norton; 163 pages; $23.95 hardcover, $9.99 e-book). Makes the argument — based on the personal experience of the writer, a Carleton College professor, of teaching creative writing in prison — that liberal education is what even the most hardened criminals need.


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